Payraise.. how much do you expect? how much did you get?
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Had my meeting with my manager last week, I allowed them to heap on the praise, I smiled as they told me next years targets (financial year). Then they asked me what my thoughts were, “my salary does not reflect my performance or the expectations put upon me” was the reply.
Let’s see what happens come April
Let’s see what happens come April
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We got 3.5% cost of living increase back dated to January. Which is fine. I've now maxed out my current pay band so cost of living rises only from now on. Can't complain I'm well paid.
Our negotiations start in April. The way the company does it is that they negotiate in April, payrise is applied in August, with backpay to April.
We've already spoked to the Union and told them we want a specific deal which would be an 11% rise plus some working conditions changes.
11% may seem high but we never end up with what we ask for so aim high
We've already spoked to the Union and told them we want a specific deal which would be an 11% rise plus some working conditions changes.
11% may seem high but we never end up with what we ask for so aim high
I need to put my rates up. Only fear is they tell me to **** off because the programming world isn't exactly a safe job right now so I am a little conflicted. Its a cushy job, they let me work when I want and there is largely very little stress. I haven't increased my rates since I started working for them 2.5 years ago though.
Company wide 5% in this months wage packet, another company wide 5% coming in April.
I was about to push for an independent increase (changed role with far more responsibilities... I'm now trained and capable after a few months) so it's kind of come at a bad time because I can't get that now. With better timing I could have gotten a bigger pay increase, but if I was to say I feel hard done by with a slightly-above 10% raise I'd raise some eyebrows.
I was about to push for an independent increase (changed role with far more responsibilities... I'm now trained and capable after a few months) so it's kind of come at a bad time because I can't get that now. With better timing I could have gotten a bigger pay increase, but if I was to say I feel hard done by with a slightly-above 10% raise I'd raise some eyebrows.
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Moved to a bigger role with much more responsibilities, but despite this, was denied a pay rise due to 'difficult times'. Our revenue has been flat for the last few years.
Moved to a bigger role with much more responsibilities, but despite this, was denied a pay rise due to 'difficult times'. Our revenue has been flat for the last few years.
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Radio was talking about salaries going up more than house prices. Doesn't seem true to me, salary has been about the same for 10 years, switched jobs a few times can never get more. Now unemployed as loads of devs are, which should bring salary down, unless zero is excluded, which would be madness if so.
I think it’s possibly a consequence of hiring minimum wage positions slowing and maybe some skewed lay offs to that end of the market as well causing the average wage to grow rather than individuals seeing it at a personal level.
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You might be able to afford a 5090 after 25 years of saving up, taking a loan, going to loan shark, mortgage, loan on the mortage, then re-mortgage three times.
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UK wages continue to outpace inflation, figures show
Pay outstripped price rises by 3.4% between October and December while the unemployment rate remains unchanged.
www.bbc.co.uk
Can anyone explain where these figures come from please?
It seems that every couple months we get an article saying pay growth is 5% or whatever. But who gets payrises in January? Most pay reviews are April aren't they?
Even if pay rises are spread across the year across the population, does that quoted 5% apply to only the sample of data being used or is it averaged across everyone? Because 5% per quarter growth would be 20% over a year. So that can't be right.
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UK wages continue to outpace inflation, figures show
Pay outstripped price rises by 3.4% between October and December while the unemployment rate remains unchanged.www.bbc.co.uk
Can anyone explain where these figures come from please?
It seems that every couple months we get an article saying pay growth is 5% or whatever. But who gets payrises in January? Most pay reviews are April aren't they?
Even if pay rises are spread across the year across the population, does that quoted 5% apply to only the sample of data being used or is it averaged across everyone? Because 5% per quarter growth would be 20% over a year. So that can't be right.
Personal tax allowance hasn't gone up though? So just means you reach the next tax bracket quicker...and pay more tax.
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Thanks, that wasn't my question though.
I haven't received a payrise in the last quarter, so my pay growth is zero.
Whose data is being used to determine pay growth last quarter was 6%?
Because if you average all those with payrises and all those who didn't get one, surely the number can't be 6%.
Yeah, its a bit of a bloodbath at the moment for developers. Especially US. The perfect storm of companies not doing so well, developers costing a lot, AI apparently being so good it will take out jobs (complete BS) and the usual cycle of companies thinking they can outsource to cheaper countries. Its a mess. With all the hoo ha about the Deepseek model from China and the US being uncompetitive I fully expect the US to make it even easier for US companies to do things they shouldn't.
This is a general issue in the West. We don't want to be like the US where there is no safety net, you have **** all holiday and you work yourself to the bone and hope that you don't get ill and bankrupt your whole family. The US shouldn't be looking to beat China at their own game of super cheap labour and borderline slave practices either but they will because their ego is so tied up with being the global super power. Trump would watch the country burn on a whim right now and the crap that is happening with Russia/Ukraine/US is somewhat concerning.
I fear what I would do if I lost my job right now because its super hard to find jobs in tech at the moment.
Welcome to late-stage capitalism. Companies will never put workers or the future above profits here and now and humans almost always pay the price.
They asked people/companies and based it on who replied. I assume it took into account public sector pay rises which are a known quantity.
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So it's only including those who have had a pay rise between Q3 and Q4? Or is it measuring Q4 2024 to Q4 2023 so the year on year change?
Seems a misleading stat because it's only looking at one quarter which is only a small proportion of people.